Wild West

2. part of the Great Plains where wheat was the dominant crop
5. Sioux chief who tricked William Fetterman to pursue a small raiding party
8. act that granted all Native Americans citizenship
9. corral located in Tombstone and held a gunfight that lasted less than a minute
11. American outlaw and leader of the James-Younger Gang
14. cast area of grassland that the federal government owned
15. men in the old west with a reputation as being dangerous with a gun.
16. African American cowboy who invented “bulldogging”.
17. hispanic settled neighborhoods
18. banned ritual performed by the Lakota that celebrated a hoped for day of reckoning
19. type of mining that removed large quantities of earth by spraying high pressures of water
21. type of mining that diverted the current of a river into trenches
23. A vast area of grassland owned by the government where ranchers could graze their herds for free
24. Also known as William Frederick Cody
25. Someone who roamed the land following a food source with no permanent home
26. most notorious cowtown in Kansas
27. the spanish word for cowboys

1. Act of 1887 that regulated land rights on tribal territories.
3. Name given to African American soldiers who served in the U.S. Army
4. tiny frontier towns quickly growing into cities due to mineral strikes
6. cattle breed descended from Spanish cattle
7. battle where George Custer was killed by Cheyenne and Lakota warriors.
10. The major long drive route from Texas to Ablilene, Kansas,
12. cattle thief in cowboy culture
13. self appointed volunteers to enforce the law
19. a tract of public land available for settlement
20. leader of the Nez Perce who refused to move to a small reservation in Idaho in 1877
22. Famous woman sharpshooter in the Buffalo Bill Cody Show